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Chapter 1: The History of Tongues-Speaking. SPEAKING in tongues, also called glossolalia—from the Greek words glossa (tongue) and lalia (speech)—was a common practice in the early Church.
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Modern attempts to receive the New Testament “baptism of the Spirit” often take the form of “the gift of tongues.”. In more sophisticated Christian circles, such as among Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Lutherans, speaking in tongues is called “glosolalia,” from the Greek words glōssa meaning “tongue,” and laleō meaning ...
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Here the word “language” is the translation of dialekto from which our word “dialect” comes. The two words glossa (tongue) and dialektos (language) are used synonymously, making it obvious that the disciples were speaking in known languages other than the language native to them. In verses 9-11 the languages are then identified.
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There are at least five kinds of speaking in tongues in the New Testament. 1. Acts 2:7, 11 relates the only Bible instance where speaking in tongues is evangelistic in the sense that the foreign languages, proclaiming the wonderful works of God, are uniquely and directly understood by their native speakers. 2.
SPEAKING IN TONGUES: THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE. 18 Genetically, there’s an increasing evidence that the Khoisan people are the oldest people. 19 [PETER LADEFOGED] There’s a great deal of an argument about why the click sounds can be found only in one location. 20 Some people claim that it’s the oldest sound in the world and that it remains ...
To 'speak with tongues', therefore, is to speak without definite meaning and without even speaking oneself; it is, in every sense, simply to speak. But, for this very reason, it is simultaneously to speak without speaking, at least as long as speech is defined, in its classical form, as the bearer of sense and the instrument of a will.
In the modern era, the growth of speaking in tongues in America is generally traced to a man named Charles Parham and to the Azusa Street Revival he led in California in 1906. He believed in the supernatural gifts of healing and speaking in tongues.
